Humorous LGBTQ+ Individuals

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• In Angel Beats!, a recurring joke revolves around Hinata uttering something questionable, prompting Otonashi to question if he's gay. Additionally, Naoi's... rather pronounced admiration of Otonashi following his episode also gets used for amusement often.
• Gundam Build Divers presents Magee, an exceedingly Camp Gay GBN diver with considerable queer coding. Yet, no one genuinely ridicules Magee for his queerness&8212;not only is his avatar exceptionally buff but attired in a way that wouldn't seem out of place in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, but he's also an incredibly skilled player who's exceptionally highly ranked (23rd globally, within a player base of twenty million, along with an extraordinarily popular social media feed to boot). A significant portion of Magee's comedy stems from his extremely ardent reactions and his playful trolling of the more serious types like Tigerwolf.
• Little Witch Academia (2017): In "Bee Affection", when Diana confronts Akko at Andrew's party, the former girl ends up getting stunned by the Cupid Bee, which acts as a Love Potion, causing her to confess her "feelings" towards Akko like Andrew did moments prior. However, unlike Andrew, whose "feelings" for Akko were treated somewhat seriously by the narrative, with Akko and Andrew's growing bond becoming the episode's focus, Diana's "confession" is played off as little more than a joke and doesn't get acknowledged again bar a later scene of her looking for Akko, only to get stunned again and fall in love with her reflection in the mirror.
• In Mayo Chiki!, when Kinjiro declines physical contact with a girl, stemming from his gynophobia with awkward physical symptoms, his male companion loudly inquires if he's gay, much to Kinjiro's embarrassment.
• In Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Sakurazaki Setsuna serves as a bodyguard of sorts who is incessantly teased regarding her overprotective stance and attraction to her charge, Konoka. It's become a Running Gag for misinterpretations of scenarios they both enter... and even some accurate interpretations.
  • That being said, much of the humor associated with Konoka and Setsuna's relationship arises not from the mere implication of their feelings for each other, but rather from their interactions. On Setsuna's part, the humor typically stems from how clear (if not explicit) her attraction to Konoka is, notwithstanding her firm denial. On Konoka's part, her openly affectionate attitude toward Setsuna is generally made funny by Setsuna's discomfort in response to it, along with the ambiguity regarding whether she's cognizant of Setsuna's affections and enjoys teasing her, or whether she's just unbelievably Oblivious to Love.
• As per Oh! Family, gay men are either excessively irritating, obsessed with sex, or He-Men Women Haters. Kay's homosexuality serves as a recurrent point of derision, and he tends to embark on tangents regarding his sexuality without any warning.

  Kay:Neither Christ nor Buddha shall salvage mankind from imminent disasters like overpopulation and hunger! But it shall be gays! Only gays possess the capability!(the camera pans out, showcasing thunder, with Kay positioned beneath a banner that reads "I <3 Gay").

• One-Punch Man features Puri-Puri Prisoner, who embodies a certain contradiction. On the one hand, he serves as the source of numerous gay jokes, given he's a campy, muscular man who often battles in the buff, strikes poses akin to Sailor Moon, and spends all his time in prison due to his inability to resist assaulting attractive men; on the other hand, he's a legitimate hero who prioritizes protecting the innocent, harbors no ulterior motives, and grew despondent when the media branded him a joke after he was defeated by an immensely powerful monster. Regrettably, as the narrative develops, the "look at the funny gay man" aspect tends to overshadow the "honest hero who happens to be gay" facet.
• Sgt. Frog: One episode shows Keroro watching a TV show. When the hero "erupts with the power of love" to save his girlfriend, Keroro comments, "Interesting how his love for his GIRLFRIEND causes him to explode in a flaming rainbow..."

• The fundamental concept of Boat Trip boils down to: "Two heterosexual men get stranded on a vessel packed with Camp Gay individuals; isn't that amusing?!"
• The titular Deadpool in Deadpool (2016) and its sequel is pansexual, with his connection to Vanessa being treated seriously, but portraying him happily molesting other guys for comedic effect.
• In Death at a Funeral, the main characters' discovery that their father had a dwarf gay lover sparks a plotline centered on blackmail, but the apparent absurdity of it is also mined for laughs.
• The 1960s comedy The Gay Deceivers appears to exclusively consist of this form of "comedy". It hasn't aged terribly well, although it boasts a modest cult fandom among queer individuals as well.
• In Inception, Eames transforming into a woman and flirting with a teammate for comic relief.
• I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, which attempts the feat of simultaneously supporting gay rights and delivering a massive gay joke.
• Various gags orbit Hollywood, a openly gay character in both Mannequin and its sequel, with a majority of them originating from his flamboyance (because, naturally, all gay men are exceedingly flamboyant in these kinds of movies).
• Myra Breckinridge revolves around a transgender woman, and has an abundance of gay jokes. Openly lesbian reviewer Diamanda Hagan was enraged upon discovering through the director commentary that his methodology was fundamentally "A man in a dress is fucking hilarious!"
• In Plan B (2009), Bruno initially treats his plan to pretend to be into his ex-girlfriend's new bisexual boyfriend Pablo to sabotage their relationship as a comedic prank, with one scene presenting him and his friend Victor laughing uncontrollably over the absurd notion of a macho man like himself checking out another man's dick. The film as a whole represents a subversion of this trope, nonetheless, since Bruno's progressive realization that his feigned interest in Pablo has evolved into something genuine and that his "humorous" scheme will ultimately result in heartbreak for both him and Pablo is addressed entirely seriously.
• The Producers&8212;a musical comedy&8212;features a song titled "keep it gay".
• Lamar, one of the protagonists in Revenge of the Nerds, is treated as inherently amusing due to his homosexuality; certain gags utilized involve his being seen engaging in aerobics in feminine spandex and leg warmers, alongside his general lack of interest in watching the sorority girls after the group plants cameras in their home. His entire identity solely pivots around his sexual orientation and his race. When the Tri-Lamb commission arrives at the nerds' gathering and Lewis puts on a recording of Old Man River, Lamar was quick to react.

• The 1980s Britcom'Allo 'Allo! possesses an excessive number of jokes about Lieutenant Gruber's homosexuality, even beyond what the inherent irony of a gay Wehrmacht soldier would justify. There are multiple instances where his mere pursuit of René immediately triggers the Laugh Track, whereas flirting between heterosexual characters typically only incites laughter when something humorous occurs.
• Arrested Development, particularly with the character Tobias, who states things that intimate he could be Ambiguously Gay, though he doesn't realize it.
• Mr Humphries from Are You Being Served? was a Camp GayPlayed for Laughs.
• Boy Meets World does this a great deal. Homosexuality is shown as being peculiar and hilarious so often that it's difficult to ponder if the show would function fifteen years subsequent to its airing.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  • Mostly Andrew. The humor may have centered more on the Transparent Closet he was confined to than anything else, yet only if you're seeking an excuse.
  • The Season 7 episode "Potential" provided an especially exquisite example with the introduction of openly gay potential slayer Kennedy, during a conversation with fellow potential, Rona, about using a wooden stake to fight Vampires.

    Rona: I savor the sensation of wood in my grip.
    Kennedy: Lost me there.

• These comprise the majority of the jokes between Raj and Howard on The Big Bang Theory, more specifically the jokes surrounding them behaving like a couple. Also worth noting is that these jokes are also made about two women, Amy and Penny. There's also the occasional joke at the expense of Leonard and Sheldon's neighbor before Penny, a large, black, cross-dressing man.
  • During a video call to his parents, Raj watches as they start to argue about his future, and his mother says, "The closest thing we have to a daughter-in-law is that little Jewish boy!"
• Brazilian group Casseta e Planeta relished mocking gays, which they justified with "it's a man who's not a man" and the fact that one of their own was homosexual.
• The Colbert Report, though the humor mainly stems from the contrast between "Stephen's" Transparent Closet and his ultra-conservatism.
• Parodied on Community. Pierce is somewhat of a Troubled Sympathetic Bigot, and he perceives gay jokes as hilarious. Not so much the rest of the group, who consistently call him out on it. Pierce especially likes making gay jokes about Jeff, who is undeniably a ladies' man.
• One of The Daily Show's most popular instances of Corpsing transpired because of a prolonged sequence of gay jokes in reaction to claims that Prince Charles had engaged in a gay affair.
• Brits old enough to recall The Dick Emery Show will remember that one of Dick's many personas was a Camp Gay, and he never truly received any punchlines; it was merely meant to be humorous due to his being a "poof".
• Friends incorporates a substantial number of gay jokes, especially around Ross' ex-wife, Chandler's father, and Chandler himself. It's so egregious that a YouTube compilation of the show's gay jokes is nearly an hour long.
• Game of Thrones: Most of Westeros looks down upon Dorne's candidly tolerant perspective on non-heterosexual relationships, as demonstrated in "Two Swords" by Bronn's and the two Lannister soldiers' offensive joke about Dornishmen fornicating with goats, and Tyrion mentions Oberyn's notorious reputation for having intercourse with a significant portion of the continent.
• The George Lopez Show presents at least three examples. One is an episode where Ernie fabricates the fact that he's Max's father in order to appeal to women as a single dad, and George makes some Ho Yay statements when he catches him in the act. Another is an episode where George is placing a newspaper advertisement seeking information about his dad, and when Ernie is done helping him shorten it, it sounds like an advertisement seeking a Latino male dating partner. There's also an episode where Carmen pretends to be dating a guy named Noah who turns out to be gay. When George finds out, he tells Carmen, "Your boyfriend's in the closet," and this is intended to be funny because her actual boyfriend is also literally in the closet in her bedroom as he's stating this.
• Occasionally in House, especially with House and Wilson, and with references to Chase.
• How I Met Your Mother, particularly the episode where Marshall and Barney are prank texting Ted.
  • Barney and Ted also allocate an episode wishing they were gay, and then 'adopt' a child together. While presented for laughs, it's also quite touching.
  • Largely averted with Barney's Straight Gay brother. His sexuality itself isn't genuinely treated for amusement, but rather the reality that he's black when Barney is white, and the fact that he was initially identical to Barney if he was drawn to men (and utilizes the same over-the-top tactics to lure men into bed that Barney employs with women).
  • There's also the incident during the road trip from hell, wherein Ted and Marshall had to "cuddle" to retain warmth within their vehicle amidst a blizzard. Ruthlessly mocked by the other 3 members.
  • Lily being Ambiguously Bi is also commonly employed for comedic effect, particularly concerning her implied attraction to Robin.
• The The IT Crowd episode "Work Outing" goes all out on this, when the team attends a musical literally titled "GAY!" which is rife with outrageous camp stereotypes, such as a song about appreciating willies. Roy even winds up trapped on a bus filled with leather-clad, handlebar-moustached men, one of whom begins hitting on him.
• The original Monty Python's Flying Circus series engaged in this regularly. Instances include the "Brigadier and Bishop" sketch and Mr. Freight (a.k.a. Great Poof) in "the Visitors" sketch.
• A significant portion of the gags involving Kenny James on My Name Is Earl fall into this category.
• Typically averted in The Orville, wherein Bortus and Klyden's relationship is almost always addressed earnestly. In contrast, much of the humor in the episode "Cupid's Dagger" originates from Ed being rendered bisexual via pheromones.
• Porridge occasionally does this with Lukewarm. For example, when Fletcher penned letters to a number of prisoners' wives, he distributed them back to the men, "To Mary, my Dear Sharon, (handing letter to Lukewarm) My darling Trevor..."-> Huge audience laugh. Later in the same episode, the wives are seen on the bus comparing their suspiciously similar letters, and there's another huge laugh when the camera showcases a man reading another such letter.
• QI is fond of this trope to the point where it'll be difficult to identify any episode lacking a gay joke made at the expense of (or by) Stephen Fry.
• In the short-lived sci-fi comedy Quark, Chief Engineer Gene/Jean is a "transmute", with both male and female chromosomes. Almost all of the gags involving his character are queer/transgender jokes.
• Turk and JD in the final seasons of Scrubs. Even in season one, this trope was fully in effect: among other things, JD pictures the Fat Albert gang doing a "Hi-oh!" after he and Turk exchange Accidental Innuendo about an appendectomy ("I want you inside me"/"Well, I want to be the one inside you") and engage in an extended West Side Story reference in which they assume the roles of Tony and Maria and parody "Tonight".
• Seinfeld featured an episode where Jerry and Costanza are Mistaken for Gay by a female reporter, and Jerry states, "We're not gay! Not That There's Anything Wrong with That!" This scenario was rehashed and presented for comedic effect each time.
• In the Pilot Episode of Smallville, the following exchange unfolds:

  Lana: Mom wants to know if you're troubled about a girl.
  Clark: No...
  Lana: Dad wants to know if you're troubled about a guy.
  Clark: No! No.
  Lana: He has a warped sense of humor.

• Spin City, where Carter's boyfriend hits on Mike. Had he been a girl, it would have been Played for Drama. As it stands, it's a comedy piece.
• Lampshaded in That '70s Show. When Red encounters a problem with his new neighbors being a gay couple, Kitty points out that he didn't have an issue with The Three Stooges engaging in it. Red justifies it by stating that it's permissible because it was humorous.
• A more classical example would be the gay jokes on Torchwood: Miracle Day, particularly in the second episode where a flight attendant is harassed about his sexuality until he breaks.
  • A disproportionate amount of Rex's comedic lines involve him making gay jokes about (and generally feeling rather uncomfortable around) Captain Jack.
• Two and a Half Men presents two instances:
  • Charlie's fiancée Chelsie's father, a virulently homophobic man's man, comes out of the closet, divorces his racist wife, and marries the black man he's been in love with since he was a young man in the army; subsequent appearances have them behaving like a normal married couple with some amusing banter, and the occasional Right Through the Wall.
  • Then Evelyn got together with the mother of Alan's girlfriend. Cue gay jokes and the children lying about their relationship to their own children, all played for laughs.
  • Apart from these cases, the series also incorporates two transgender Girl of the Week characters: an ex of Charlie's who transforms into a new boyfriend of Evelyn's in season 1, and a trans woman Alan dates briefly in season 11. Both of them are the subject of some jokes that fit this trope in a fairly non-offensive way, but their treatment is very positive in general.
• In Ugly Betty, the Camp Gay Marc St. James almost invariably serves as the most humorous character, although not all the humor emanates from him being gay (the creator of the show, Silvio Horta, was also openly gay).
• Xena: Warrior Princess largely sidesteps this trope, but one noteworthy instance surfaces from the season four episode "The Play's the Thing," where the following conversation was played for, and met with, significant laughter:

  Minya: Gabrielle, I wanted to express my gratitude! I would have never met Pollina if it wasn't for you! In fact, the two of you made me realize something profound within myself that I suppose I've always known, but simply didn't dare confess. Yes. I'm a thespian!
  Xena: Oh. Hah. Congratulations. You managed to touch someone.
  Gabrielle: That's not exactly what I intended. I aimed to convert violent individuals into people of peace, not actors. That is what she stated, correct? Deep down, she's a thespian? Yeah, um, that's what she stated. Yeah.
  Xena: Why? What did you believe?
  Gabrielle: Thespian.

  • Joxer's triplet brother Jace is the embodiment of ancient Greek Camp Gay, and only appeared in the second (you guessed it) Musical Episode. Jace's atrocious (even by in-universe standards) Spanish accent, and incredible Camp stylings would make a youthful Elton John cringe, and granted the audience of "Lyre, Lyre Hearts on Fire" a few cheap (and strangely glittery) laughs.

• Big Bad Bosses has a song titled "Capture You", performed (in-universe) by Ganondorf. It's a Played for Laughs song about his desire to bed Link.
• "This Guy's In Love With You, Pare (Buddy)" is a composition by the Filipino band Parokya ni Edgar (Edgar's Parish). The song is about an individual discovering that their best friend is gay (and is hitting on them); mainly presented for laughs. You can listen to the song with English subtitles (and used as a Naruto parody) here.
• Lampshaded by Sammy J and Randy in their song "Swiss Lovers in a Past Life". The song revolves around both Sammy J and Randy harboring memories of falling in love in a rural Swedish town and realizing that they were, well, Swiss lovers in a past life. Subsequently, one mentions climbing a window and making love, and the other replies that wasn't his window &8212; and he realizes that's why he thought he recognized a man in the crowd earlier. Yet, they then start questioning whether they're exploiting homophobia for cheap laughs:

  Randy: Is this homophobic?
  Sammy: 'Cause it's making fun of gay men?
  Randy: D'you think so?
  Sammy: I have no clue.
  Randy: There's a certain implication homosexual fornication is more worthy of laughs.
  Sammy: They were laughing!
  Randy: That's no excuse, it's 2015!

• A not infrequent joke in Eminem's music, particularly in his early work. Specifically, he has a gay character, Ken Kaniff, who originated as a Prank Call character, and has one Crosses the Line TwiceFan Disservice sequence where he has sex with Insane Clown Posse, but (commencing with The Eminem Show) only sings Depraved Homosexual-themed song parodies of Eminem's comedy singles.

  Guess who's back. Back again. Keniff's back. Tell some men.

• Tyler, the Creator employed this extensively in his early shock-rap material. Following a few years of this, he openly identified as bisexual.

• John Cena would routinely direct jokes at the expense of Michael Cole. The punchline to all of them is essentially, "ur gay. Hur-hur-hur."
• Ten years before, Triple H mocked Kurt Angle in the identical manner, and the entire schtick of Billy and Chuck.

• The classic radio comedy show Round the Horne, broadcasted during a period before homosexuality was fully legalized in Britain, introduced two outrageously out gay characters called Julian and Sandy, portrayed by Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams. One could argue that Julian and Sandy, who were cherished for their sheer camp outrageousness, assisted in paving the way in the mid-1960s for greater acceptance of homosexuality, eventually leading to legal reform later in the decade. They were perceived, ultimately, as two sweet, inoffensive individuals rather than ravenous, perverted monsters.
  
  It's widely asserted that, in the 1960s, only the more cosmopolitan crowd would grasp precisely what was being suggested about Jules and Sandy &8212; to the less sophisticated, it merely sounded like a collection of silly voices and nonsensical words. (Mind you, this is primarily claimed by the "baby boom" generation, who were children at the time and wouldn't have realized, and their parents may have gone to their graves without acknowledging that they understood those jokes either.) Broadcasting regulations at the time were such that you could convey what you desired if nobody who didn't already comprehend the matter would recognize (the logic would be 'if you understood enough to be offended, you're already as corrupted as we are!') Some of it was "nonsense words", as Julian and Sandy frequently spoke in Polari, the contemporaneous gay slang. [1]

• Louis C.K. referenced this in one of his stand-up specials; specifically, he matured around a gay man who behaved like a complete stereotype of gay individuals, and Louis would find him funny. But, Louis defended himself, stating that he wasn't laughing because the individual was gay, but rather because of how "weird and silly" he was behaving.

• The Honey Bee Inn scene of Final Fantasy VII is relatively infamous for this, given it's already a component of a somewhat-questionable Dragged into Drag scenario, and is primarily just a sequence of gay jokes and molestation innuendo directed at Cloud.
• Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis features the gag character space prince Muppy, whose ending involves him proposing to make Vanye his "queen", which is intended to be inherently humorous and not a serious ship tease. (Although the other half of the joke is that it's Interspecies Romance.)
• This trope encounters Double Standard in Persona 5. The game's primary villain, Kamoshida, is an abusive gym teacher who sexually harasses his female students, which is 100% Played for Drama. The game also presents a minor Running Gag of a gay couple sexually harassing Ryuji, 100% Played for Laughs. The English translation of Royal moderates their actions to "merely" dragging Ryuji into drag.
• The Trails Series includes several non-heterosexual characters, predominantly women attracted to other women like Shirley Orlando, Mariabell Crois, and Angelica Rogner, but their attraction to the same sex is principally depicted in the form of gags, such as Shirley groping well-endowed women or Angelica hitting on every girl she encounters. Within the main and supporting character cast, there are no official same-sex couples.

• In CLANNAD, in one route, you can ultimately fall in love with Sunohara, which is Played for Laughs.
  • At another point, Tomoya declares as a joke to his class that Kyou is bi and, when she becomes exceedingly angry and threatens him to retract it, that she's a lesbian, only for him to become alarmed when the situation backfires and everyone begins to believe he's gay or bi, too. Oddly, whereas in the original Ryou was comically (and thankfully) entirely accepting of each idea, the anime attempts to augment the tension by making her become teary at the notion of her sister being gay, potentially rendering the scene rather awkward for anyone who has dealt with homophobia in their loved ones in real life.
• In Little Busters!, the series occasionally jokes about Riki and Kyousuke's relationship, but unlike in Clannad, the Ho Yay is often treated with complete seriousness.
• Rewrite (2011) includes this throughout. In one early scene, Kotarou jokingly speculates that Yoshino is gay, but then panics when he realizes that he'd be the sole conceivable love interest. A little later, in an optional mappie scene, a nameless character informs Kotarou that insulting his friend, Yoshino, merely diminishes his popularity with the underclassmen, however when Kotarou initiates declaring that he adores Yoshino, the individual comments that he'll only attract 'weird fans' that way. And then, there's another scene where Kotarou jokes that Yoshino is gay (or initiating 'an interest in Boys' Love', anyhow), prompting Yoshino to punch him and tell him he'll kill him if he says that again. And this represents merely a few examples...

• In Homestuck, Tavros attempts to troll Dave by rapping at him, however his raps consistently become unintentionally homoerotic, which commences to confuse him and opens him up to some extraordinary counter-trolling from Dave, who hits on Tavros insultingly until he gets upset and blocks him.
  • Generally, this is averted, though. Queer characters and relationships are involved which are never exploited for cheap laughs, and even in the above case, it's subsequently revealed that Tavros belongs to a species where Everyone Is Bi, so his unease was completely centered on the unwanted sexual descriptions rather than the gay implications. Notably, Karkat's crush on John, while hilarious, is mainly amusing because of how poorly Karkat expresses it, and how entirely incompatible they are in the manner that Karkat desires them to be (explicitly, Karkat wants them to have a romance predicated on mutual hatred, when neither of them hates each other).
  • Gamzee hitting on Tavros somewhat encompasses this (it's unimaginable to envision a heterosexual solicitation resulting in out-of-context Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff references and a Homage Shot to the scene from Problem Sleuth where PS is incapable of bringing himself to tap a Magic: The Gathering-like card of a man's ass), and somewhat because it was intended to amuse the fanbase by canonizing a popular but noncanon ship that instigated significant backlash. Noticeably, in the subsequent scene dealing with Gamzee's crush on Tavros, it's handled seriously (if disturbingly), and it's clarified that Gamzee was especially saddened by losing Tavros more than anyone else.
• In Ménage à 3, Dillon was initially a somewhat flamboyant Camp Gay, yet as time progressed, some readers felt that he was flanderized into a walking gay stereotype (although others felt that the seeds of that characterization were always there). This was lampshaded in his own Spin-Off comic, Sticky Dilly Buns, where he admits he went "from gay, to super ultra mega gay".
• Jerkcity employs this as its modus operandi, although a creator behind the comic has stated that the comic is, in actuality, a satire of this form of humor.
• Inverted horrifically in SomethingPositive with theater-director-from-hell Avogadro Pompey, who retained a little person (Pepito) as a sex slave and regularly abused his nephew Ollie. ^note Yet, what Ollie's father subjected him to was actually worse. Pompey lacked a discernible sense of humor and was unrelentingly abusive (even non-sexually) to his casts and crews.

• Alexander Avila: Discussed in his "How Comedies are Changing LGBT+ Representation'' video. Alex brings up how in the 1920s a considerable number of queercoded characters, particularly males, were predominantly utilized for Plucky Comic Relief, a phenomenon he notes persists to this day, though not to the same extent. He continues to suggest that he perceives it as quite offensive due to it simply transforming the act of being gay into a joke.
• B. Dylan Hollis includes a substantial number of jokes in his baking videos, notably cheeky quips that subtly allude to his being gay and his love life.
  • In the tuna salad jello video, he displays a substantial cucumber^note which, to be fair, is one of the ingredients by one end and remarks, "Really, Mitchell?"
  • From the vinegar pie video:

    pulls out a pie pan You're going to crave the deep 9-inch. Don't we all.

  • The "Valentine's Cream Pie" video is loaded with one-liners, such as "Mmm-hmm. Now, I can't envision anything superior for Valentine's Day than a genuine cream pie.", "For the pie pan, we're going to crave a 9-inch. I know I do too." and "[The baked crust] finished a bit early. Occurs to the finest among us."
  • He erupts in laughter in the "candle salad" video when it instructs to cut a ring of pineapple and set a peeled banana in the hole. It then Smash Cuts to a scene where only the tip of the banana is peeled, and he quips, "This is European".
• Staple for certain writers of Cracked. Although they fully concede that the majority of their humor is predicated on dick jokes (freelance writers are granted the title "Purveyor of Dick Jokes"), so it's somewhat unavoidable that gay insinuations would be included. Gay, lesbian, and bi jokes receive full and equal appreciation (they have some choice remarks to make about Andy Dick, for instance). Yet when it comes to actual LGBT individuals they admire, like Freddy Mercury, they don't joke about it.
• One of the most positive conceivable examples of this trope is Gilmore from Critical Role. The entire group consistently initiates Corpsing at his grandiose mannerisms and his evident crush on Vax... and yet the portrayal never comes across as offensive, primarily because Matt portrays him as a three-dimensional person beneath all that flair and flirtation. He also elicits other kinds of jokes, he's an exceedingly proficient businessman, and Vox Machina and the Critters adore him.
• Das Mervin and Mrs. Hyde have a propensity to include jokes in their Twilight recaps about how characters like Edward, Aro, or Carlisle are patently gay, primarily as a Take That! to how prevalent the Ho Yay is even as the books emphasize that their most loving relationships are with their wives (notwithstanding how underdeveloped and flat those wives and relationships are).
• The majority of the humor in Dirty Potter, in spite of a universe where Everyone Is Bi, since, quote "gay stuff is funnier". Notwithstanding that, it still has gay and trans fans, two (possibly three) of whom are actually friends with the main creator. Note that the creators are straight allies and amplify the characters' depravity for the sake of absurdism. It is a parody, after all.
• Epic Rap Battles of History featured an episode with Gandalf and Dumbledore. Naturally, there were numerous references to the latter's sexuality, including a Lockhard expy as a boy toy.
• Jim Sterling is pansexual in real life, so they play this up from time to time as part of their disgusting, narcissistic comic persona. A prime example of this is in their video Top Ten Game Characters I'd Wank Off in a Public Toilet, a Fan Disservice-ridden parody of deplorable "Top Ten Hottest Videogame Bab